Acer and its Canberra-based reseller Dataflex have won a major tender to supply desktop PCs to the Commonwealth Treasury of Australia. Dataflex's involvement is key to the deal, and the initial rollout of 300 PCs was expected to be completed by the end of last month.
IBM is building a fat pipe between the mainframe and its Netfinity Windows NT server.
Microsoft's Developer Day event will give resellers the chance to dive in and get their hands dirty on Microsoft's upcoming Visual Studio 6.0.
The ability to tailor a flexible and cost-effective licensing arrangement has won West Australian network security specialist Alpha West a new three-year antivirus deal with the Education Department of WA.
CD-RW drives, which can record CD-ROMs on both permanent (CD-R) or rewritable (CD-RW) media, have grabbed the lion's share of the hot market for CD writers.
Iona Technologies has delivered its OrbixTalk 1.2 middleware messaging solution on IBM's AIX platform.
How cheap can monitors get? Right now, in the US, you can go out and buy a 17in monitor for what a 15in one cost last year.
Cognos has announced a new version of its DataMerchant product for packaging, distributing, metering and selling database information over the Internet, extranets or intranets.
Inprise and Sun Microsystems will work together to develop Inprise development tools for the Solaris platform, the com- panies announced recently at Inprise's user conference.
Philips has announced it will launch the Windows CE-based Nino 300 on the Australian market on September 28.
Microsoft has released the first iteration of COM+, an update to its Component Object Model (COM).
Microsoft has chosen Sydney as one of two implementation test beds for a massive call centre partnership with Nortel. Using Nortel's Symposium Call Centre server is planning to build what it calls "virtual call centres", in which geographically dispersed centres are networked so the operation appears to calls as one centre.
Microsoft this week released a version of Internet Explorer 4.01 for a second Unix platform, HP-UX. The software maker also released its Outlook Express e-mail client and an Internet Explorer administration kit for HP-UX.
Microsoft and Data General have announced plans to establish a network of competency centres that will foster the development of health care applications based on ActiveX.
Cisco Systems has announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire publicly-held Summa Four for $US116 million.
